These are the slides for a talk I gave at PyOhio 2011.

1. Aspen
A Next-Generation
Web Framework
Chad Whitacre

2. How do we make things?
What web development experience do we
want?
How does Aspen deliver this experience?

3. How do we make things?
What web development experience do we
want?
How does Aspen deliver this experience?

4. How do we make things?
What web development experience do we
want?
How does Aspen deliver this experience?

5. How do we make things?

6. “Design from the
outside in,
build from the inside

8. “I never really thought about
the economics of a
restaurant, only the food
and the experience.
Everyone thought I was
crazy, but I had a very
strong vision for the way
Chipotle was going to
look, and taste, and feel.”
- Steve Ells, Founder

12. Google’s Data Center in The Dalles, Oregon via Bing ;-)

14. a ? b : c

15. b if a else c

16. How do we make things?

17. How do we make things?
Design from the outside in,
build from the inside out.

18. What web development experience do we
want?

19. How did you start?
Static and/or CGI
ASP, PHP, etc.
OO - Zope, CherryPy, etc.
MVC - Django, Rails, etc.
Other

24. What web development experience do we
want?

25. What web development experience do we
want?
Simple. Powerful. Clean.

26. How does Aspen deliver this experience?

27. resource
one file
multiple pages

33. There are four Aspen resources.
static
templat
e
json
socket

34. static
template
json
socket

35. static
templat
e json
socket

36. static
templat
e
json
socket

37. static
templat
e
json
socket

38. static
templat
e
json
socket

39. Aspen resources bring
progressive enhancement
to the web developer experience.
Your site is as simple or complex
as required, with no spaghetti.

41. Conclusion

42. How do we make things?
Design from the outside in,
build from the inside out.
What web development experience do we
want?
Simple. Powerful. Clean.
How does Aspen deliver this experience?
Aspen resources. One file. Multiple pages.

43. Thank you.
http://aspen.io/